Chapter 121: Alchemy Is Like Cooking

Mu Zixi still remembers that after the apprenticeship ceremony in the morning, Sang Lao secretly said to her, "By the way, you have a secret senior brother."

Secret?

The master actually already has an apprentice? I have a senior brother?

The master is so powerful, so this senior brother must be very powerful too!

Secret... Could it be that he is the kind of strange man who hides in the dark, keeps it secret, is cold and stylish, and is very frugal with words, but will come forward to touch her head and kill her after she does something wrong, and say "It's okay, I'm here" in a magnetic voice?

Wow, this is great!

Mu Zixi was very much looking forward to it, but when she saw Xu Xiaoshou at this time, she felt that her dream was shattered.

"Xu Xiaoshou, how could it be you?!"

This guy is in line with her imagination, probably just the three words "strange man", and the long prefix can be removed.

"Why call me Xu Xiaoshou, call me senior brother!" Sang Lao appeared in front of her in a flash, and a knuckle was pressed down, causing the little girl to hold her head in pain.

"Hello, Senior Brother..."

"Cursed, passive value, +1."

Xu Xiaoshou was immediately happy, holding his hands behind his ears, "What?"

Mu Zixi's eyes widened, her face turned pale, "Xu Xiaoshou, don't go too far!"

Bang!

Sang Lao pressed another finger at the right time, and Mu Zixi's eyes were full of tears: "Hello, Senior Brother!"

"Very good." Xu Xiaoshou immediately laughed.

He was still very surprised that his junior sister would be Mu Zixi.

The first time they met this girl was on the ring. The violent girl almost blew him to death, and she also played very well. If it wasn't for the last greed, he would have been sent out of the ring.

However, she was obviously not a congenital body, so why would Sang Lao accept her as a disciple?

Xu Xiaoshou was very curious.

Sang Lao didn't care so much, he waved his hand and said, "Sit down."

After that, he took out his three-legged bathtub. When this thing came out, Mu Zixi was immediately shocked.

"Like what?" Xu Xiaoshou was slightly amused and approached.

Sang Lao paused and did not turn around, but his attention was obviously temporarily focused on this. He was still upset about Xu Xiaoshou saying that his alchemy furnace looked like a bathtub last time!

"This thing?" Mu Zixi hesitated and said, "Like... an alchemy furnace?"

Sang Lao was immediately amused and glared at Xu Xiaoshou. Just as he was about to speak, the little girl continued, "But aren't you going to make an elixir? What are you doing with this bathtub?" Her eyes were alert.

"Puff!"

Xu Xiaoshou burst into laughter immediately, "See, I said this thing looks like a bathtub, old man, you still don't believe it?"

"If it didn't have three legs..."

His voice became smaller and smaller, because the old man's murderous eyes were staring at him viciously.

Xu Xiaoshou touched his head awkwardly, turned around and lectured Mu Zixi: "Alchemy furnace! This is an alchemy furnace! You have no sense at all!"

Mu Zixi rolled her eyes: "Do you think I'm stupid?"

Old Sang's eyelids twitched twice, and he said angrily: "This is indeed an alchemy furnace!"

"Uh..."

Three question marks slowly appeared on the girl's pretty face, and she turned her head and glared at Xu Xiaoshou fiercely.

"Cursed, passive value, +2."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense! I will refine a furnace of alchemy first, and you can see how much you can learn first." Old Sang rolled up his sleeves.

The big bathtub was placed under the big red bead above his head. Old Sang stretched out his hand, and the milky white surface immediately began to heat up and turned slightly red.

Mu Zixi curiously leaned over and asked: "Red?"

Xu Xiaoshou glanced at Old Sang who was refining the alchemy. The old man obviously had no intention of explaining. As a senior brother, he consciously took on this responsibility.

He pointed at the void below the cauldron, "Did you see it?"

"What?" Mu Zixi turned her head and rubbed her eyes, but couldn't see anything. "Air?"

Xu Xiaoshou: "..."

"The old man should have told you about the flames of the sky!" He suddenly realized something. He had the passive skill "Perception", but this little girl didn't!

"Use your spiritual thoughts to see it."

After the cultivation breaks through the Yuanting realm in the three realms of the innate, a Yuanting will be opened up in the brain area, giving birth to spiritual thoughts.

The function of this thing is similar to "Perception", but it must be used actively. The only passive effect is probably the danger warning.

Mu Zixi used her spiritual thoughts to scan and saw the invisible flames of the sky under the cauldron. She was immediately amazed.

"Puff!"

The sudden temperature startled Mu Zixi. She lowered her head and immediately saw Xu Xiaoshou's hand under her face, on which was the invisible flame!

He can do it too?

Fang wanted to exclaim a few words to ease the tension between the two, but she didn't expect to hear a teasing voice in her ear.

"Haha, you can't do that!"

Xu Xiaoshou happily withdrew his hand, "It's okay, Senior Brother will teach you later!"

Mu Zixi was so angry that her teeth itched, damn Xu Xiaoshou!

"Cursed, passive value, +1."

Xu Xiaoshou was very happy. In the past, when he faced Sang Lao, he was so scared that he didn't dare to play tricks, which resulted in the passive value not increasing at all.

Now that there is a junior sister, it will be much more fun.

They are all passive values, and even a small increase is still a small increase. What we are afraid of is the accumulation of time!

Sang Lao was very focused when he was refining the elixir. Even if he was simply heating up the cauldron, he didn't say anything.

Xu Xiaoshou had seen him make pills once, so he naturally knew all this. He continued to explain based on the knowledge in his mind, pointing to the big bathtub with a sense of mission: "See, this process is called 'heating up'."

"You can't just do it right away when making pills. It's the same principle as cooking. Even if we don't use oil, we have to heat the pan."

Sang Lao's mouth twitched. This metaphor is really vivid, but why does it feel a bit cheap... I'm making pills!

Mu Zixi looked suspicious, but seeing that Sang Lao didn't refute, a look of sudden realization appeared on his face.

"Suspected, passive value, +1."

"Admired, passive value, +1."

"Cursed, passive value, +1."

Hmm? Curse?

Given by this damn old man?

Xu Xiaoshou nodded with satisfaction, watching Sang Lao start to make other moves... He grabbed a handful of herbs from the ring and started throwing them into the pot, over and over again.

This operation directly shocked the little girl. So many herbs, can they be refined?

Xu Xiaoshou certainly knew what she was thinking. He was also amazed when he saw it for the first time.

"No doubt, this is making the elixir."

"A novice certainly can't do this, but the old man is strong, and he can do many things at the same time. He can divide and conquer, and do many things at the same time."

"This is not important!"

Xu Xiaoshou searched for the knowledge in his mind and began to explain in real time: "Did you see it? That's the silver frost flower, which is cold and bitter, but tastes sweet; that's the green deer fruit, which is very fragrant and delicious..."

"And that apple grass, in ancient times it was used to feed..."

"Ahem!"

It's easy to say...

"In short, adding all these things together, it's not difficult to guess that what is being made is..." Xu Xiaoshou suddenly looked weird. How did he come up with it?

"Yuanting Pill?"

He looked at Old Sang, and the old man actually nodded approvingly. This...

Xu Xiaoshou was so confused that he didn't even see that the many "suspected" contributions of Mu Zixi in the information column had turned into "admired".

This "culinary proficiency" is quite amazing. Through the medicinal properties of the ingredients, you can also infer the elixir that can be refined after they are combined?

However, my "culinary proficiency" is only acquired level 6, how can I deduce the seventh-grade elixir? The seventh grade is already an innate elixir!

Could it be...

"Innate elixirs are not all made up of innate spiritual medicines, but are mixed with innate and acquired medicinal materials, and then refined with special techniques, and finally condensed into elixirs?" Xu Xiaoshou asked tentatively.

Old Sang couldn't help but look sideways, surprised that Xu Xiaoshou could actually understand so much.

This is a world of difference from the first meeting when he only saw "you are refining elixirs" and "this is actually an elixir cauldron"!

Xu Xiaoshou was affirmed, clenched his fist excitedly, turned his head and said to his junior sister: "I told you!"

"Refining elixir is like cooking. You don't need very good ingredients. As long as the skills and heat are in place, supplemented with seasonings, you can achieve the goal."

He pointed to the big bathtub, "Look at this, you can stew a delicious pot of stewed food!"

Old Sang's hand trembled and almost exploded the stove.

"Xu Xiaoshou, shut up!"

"Accepted the request, passive value, +1."